No comments on emergency situations, but wanted to call out one thing:
> You need additional highways (aka: additional offramps) to truly scale day-to-day traffic
Additional highways are at-best a stop-gap for day-to-day traffic, never a solution, due to induced demand [1]. You really need large-scale investments in public transportation for this.
> You need additional highways (aka: additional offramps) to truly scale day-to-day traffic
Additional highways are at-best a stop-gap for day-to-day traffic, never a solution, due to induced demand [1]. You really need large-scale investments in public transportation for this.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand#Effect_in_trans...